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Consider switching the license of the app to the Peer Production License

Open vkehayas opened this issue 6 years ago • 1 comments

The license text and further discussion can be found in the following link: https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Production_License

This license is based on the Creative Commons ‘Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike’ license (v. 3.0) with these additional clauses inserted:

You may exercise the rights granted in Section 3 for commercial purposes only if: i. You are a worker-owned business or worker-owned collective; and ii. all financial gain, surplus, profits and benefits produced by the business or collective are distributed among the worker-owners

If our goal is not simply to facilitate distribution of our code and ideas but to also promote a change in culture, I think that this, or a similar, license is more appropriate. I believe that our dependencies are all under the MIT or LGPL licenses which should pose no problem in continuing using them.

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  • [x] I've read the contributing guidelines and the code of conduct
  • [ ] I've checked that this issue applies to this repo Not really sure about this.
  • [x] I've checked the existing issues, no one else has reported this
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vkehayas avatar Mar 29 '18 14:03 vkehayas

@vkehayas I've raised this in our Slack channel. Might take some time for us to go over everything but feel free to touch base periodically.

KadeMorton avatar Apr 02 '18 07:04 KadeMorton